David Evans

The book, tells stories of heroism and the soldiers will to survive in a hostile environment. The soldiers have to work together through the many hurdles to get themselves safe. While they are fighting some of them become injured and are assisted by their fellow soldiers. Each mission takes endurance, strategy and planning to complete. The soldiers came under fire from the enemy and with strategy and great precision took out the enemy and went on...

A second volume of memoir by a gay man who, at the age of twenty-nine, left the music business having worked with Cat Stevens, Elton John, Queen, Kiki Dee and many others in the nineteen-seventies and began life again with a lover and a shop full of antiques. After an emotional break-up, the author moved back to his home town of Malvern in Worcestershire and opened a restaurant used as an afternoon haunt by the restless boys and girls of the local...

A book of the authors original poetry coupled with his original needlepoint. Many of the poems have been written to be included on the needlepoint work. The author has tried over forty years to push the boundaries of original needlepoint design whilst keeping faith with a British tradition of including words in the design of the sewn work. With forty-nine illustrations (in colour if downloaded to tablet readers) the work takes form in cushions, contemporized...

This is a memoir of intimately personal "supernatural" experiences. From a childhood abduction to an answered prayer; with ghosts, UFO's, and telepathy sprinkled between years of normal life. It is my hope that most readers will find it entertaining, but not take it too seriously and then go about their happy lives. I anticipate that only a handful of folks, those already possessed of strange experiences and forbidden knowledge, will truly understand...

Richardson was the astronaut chosen for the test. He had passed every one of the grueling preliminary tests with flying colors, mental and physical, and as far as could be judged by science, he had seemed to be the perfect specimen, mentally and physically, for the job.The job was to be the first man to be sent to space and return safely to Earth. The test was going well until Richarson started talking in a strange language. What was happening? What...

Two gay men of later years share their love of needlepoint in a fully colour illustrated volume displaying a body of original work created over the forty year span of their lives from 1977 until 2007. Using stories recounting some of their inspiration and experiences enjoyed on their extensive travels, David Evans and Nigel Quiney celebrate their lives with colour and originality in their work which is revealed as being so much more than merely decorative....

Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous value to consumers and helped some entrepreneurs build great fortunes. And they are likely to drive change that will dwarf the business and technology revolution...

Like Aesop's Fables and Orwell's Animal Farm, The Maze is populated with animal characters who, in their words and actions, reveal truths about human nature. In The Woods, a very popular, clever, and ambitious rat named Sniff-who commands a pack of deputy rats known as The Five-intends to replace the aging leader, Owl, when he retires on election day in two weeks. As a famous athlete of the air in his youth, Owl has established The Tradition of Wings....

Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Facebook to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber, are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another group of customers. Economists call matchmakers multisided platforms because they provide physical or virtual platforms for multiple groups to get together. Dating sites connect people with potential matches, for example, and ride-sharing apps do the...

Examining the changing face of the genre from its beginnings at the end of the 19th century to its international popularity today, this book traces the social climate that inspired the blues and takes a look at the unmistakable influences that blues had on 20th-century music.